About Our Lab

The SPARC@Ole Miss Lab, located on the 3rd floor of Weir Hall, examines a wide range of topics focused, generally, under the umbrella of "Security" or "Privacy." The lab Director, Dr. Charles Walter, encourages his students to research the topics that interest them, provided they have a security or privacy. The lab has had a total of 4 Graduate Students graduate since it inception, with 5 graduate students, 4 undergraduates, and 3 high school students having done work in the lab in some capacity outside of thesis or dissertation work. 

Hill Hall
Hill Hall, with the SPARC@Ole Miss lab windows visible on the 3rd floor

The lab currently has 4 ongoing projects: EmbeddGAN, Image-based Binary Malware Detection, Privacy-Preserving AR/AI Man-Machine Teaming, and Privacy-Preserving Wearable Data Machine Learning. Previous projects include: Generalized Image-based Adversarial Machine Learning, Data Poisoning Detection, Distributed Wearable Privacy, Physical-device-based Adversarial Machine Learning, and CAN Bus Security Analyses. 

Current Projects

Current, ongoing projects in the SPARC@Ole Miss Lab

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EmbeddGAN

Using learned Embeddings as a GAN discriminator for formal verification of generated image distributions 

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Image-based Binary Malware Detection

Examining Malware Detection from a different context, automating modern malware detection. 

AI/AR Man-Machine Teaming

Privacy-Preserving AR/AI Man-Machine Teaming

Using Wearables running Local LLMs and Augmented Reality to provide quick, accurate information about the world around you

Wearable Data Machine Learning Privacy

Privacy-Preserving Wearable Data Machine Learning

Federated Learning and Distributed Fog Computing to ensure privacy of wearable data